RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 13, 2017

And as you broaden your experiences with people outside your work environment, you will have more interesting things to say. Doing things together outside the work environment can deepen the bonds of trust on the job. Crack open a book. This may sound counter-intuitive, but it could help to pick up a book or two. Everybody wins.

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RapidStart Leadership

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

By providing a rich, positive environment and a starting point several feet in the air, it had given the young spruce a head start in the race for sunlight. Often, the richest evironment happens to be atop a fallen tree laying on the forest floor.

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RapidStart Leadership

JANUARY 16, 2018

It’s an environment that stifles initiative. But the bigger problem is that the fear environment forces us to focus on our own survival to the exclusion of all else. However they are delivered, credible threats still elicit the fear response. Most often, that response is avoidance.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

It reinforces an environment of honesty and trust on your team. • Taking immediate ownership is the right anwer for lots of good reasons. • It sets a positive example for others to follow – isn’t that how you’d want your teammates to respond? •

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RapidStart Leadership

JULY 11, 2017

I think you will find that his simple, no-nonsense approach is easy to grasp, and that his experience with leading basketball teams translates well to whatever leadership environment you happen to be in. It all begins by thinking small, defining the details that contribute to your success, then putting in the work to get really good at them.

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Books Leadership Succession Follow-up 129

RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

New perspectives in the working environment can engender deeper understanding of how the team functions, and motivate teammates to improved performance. Alternate positions, cross-train, change the daily pattern, there are even plenty of ways to add some variety to that meeting everyone loves to hate. Demotivation – The Takeaway.

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RapidStart Leadership

MARCH 28, 2017

The goal is not to randomly kick over the apple cart just to shake things up, but to refresh and renew the working environment for everyone. Just one caution here: It’s best to do this as a team event so that everyone is on board and has the opportunity to contribute.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Last week we talked about the importance of seeking to understand your leadership environment before you start trying to lead. And if you were taking good notes and paying attention to the people you talked with, you should have a pretty good idea of the direction you want to take your team.

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RapidStart Leadership

DECEMBER 24, 2016

Buddy’s attempts to interpret his new urban environment through the lens of his North Pole Elf upbringing provide plenty of humorous material for the writers to work with. Papa Elf finally sits his giant son on his lap and tells him that he was adopted and that his real father is alive and working in New York City.

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RapidStart Leadership

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The best way to learn about someone is to see them in their environment. Tip: Don’t let a ringing phone become synonomous with bad news; call when there’s something good to share, too. Go and see. If budget allows, plan to visit your team in person as soon as you can.

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RapidStart Leadership

APRIL 20, 2017

Is the working environment positive, healthy and productive for your team? To find the kind of problems you are looking for, ask questions like these: • Are processes and procedures functioning efficiently to support your team and its customers? • Does the team have the information, resources, and tools to get the job done? •

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Books Learning-by-Doing Bureaucracy Follow-up 144

RapidStart Leadership

JANUARY 25, 2018

As Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic writes for Harvard Business Review , you have to “create the kinds of secure and supportive environments where creativity and productivity thrive.” People look to their leadership for predictability and stability. ” A daily soap opera is not a good sign; tone it down and go for “boring.”

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How To Open-book Learning-by-Doing Video 125

RapidStart Leadership

JANUARY 30, 2018

It was important to him to see me and my teams in our working environment so that he could understand first hand what our challenges were. This is what he did to become a great boss in my mind. Traits of a Great Boss. He came to me.

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RapidStart Leadership

MARCH 23, 2017

Your team’s culture is part of your working environment. Some people like T-shirts, but it could be anything – a spatula , paperweight, or wrench – something that symbolizes what you are about and how your culture works. Live The Culture. Here are some ways to build it into your team’s daily experience. Keep bringing it up.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

One way an introverted leader can succeed in this environment can be to guide the interaction with questions (something we can be very good at). Avoiding the problem doesn’t make it go away, it allows it to grow larger. Click To Tweet. Get comfortable in company. Teamwork is group event.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

First, understand the environment by intentionally engaging with key people, asking good questions, and listening intently. Just keep in mind that what you did to succeed in your old job will not guarantee doing well in your new one. Plan for your success the same way my new friend from Panama did.

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RapidStart Leadership

JANUARY 2, 2017

But if you want to actually achieve what you aim for, it takes some deliberate work to set up an environment in which you can experience many small victories along the way. Goal Setting Crash Test – The Takeaway. Having a goal is good. Making it a clearly defined one is better. Click To Tweet.

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 25, 2017

The friction of ideas and concepts rubbing against each other can produce a spark of creativity that you can’t get in a consensus environment. It’s not the time to get comfortable. It’s the time to seek discomfort. If everyone is thinking alike, then someone is not thinking. Patton Click To Tweet.

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